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- Put Parents in the Drivers Seat of Detroit School Reform
- How Local Governments Advocate for Tax Increases
- Mackinac Center Releases Report Highlighting Lawmakers’ Missed Votes
- Government as Santa
- Americans are Moving to Right-to-Work States
- Archaic Prevailing Wage Law Should Be Repealed
- Mackinac Center Research Featured in The Detroit News
- December 18, 2015 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call Report
- Michigan Legislature Unanimously Passes Criminal Intent Reform
- Mackinac Center Praises Michigan Legislature’s Passage of Criminal Intent Bill
- Government Officials to Pick Lodging Industry Winners and Losers?
- Do You Feel Endangered When You Travel Out of State?
- Survey Reveals How Schools in Different States Compare in Privatizing Services
- Don’t Blame Employees for Pension Underfunding
- Economic Freedom Matters
- School Support Service Privatization: A Five-State Survey
- 'We’re Number 10' in School Choice
- Legislature Hoping for Improbable Federal Rescue of Medicaid Expansion
- LaFaive Op-Ed Published in The Detroit News
- December 11, 2015 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call Report
- Why is it Better to be Middle Class Than Upper Class?
- Yet Another 'Photo Cop' Traffic Ticket Scheme
- Skip Industry Breaks, Lower All Taxes
- GOP Helping Big Spending Public School Lobby
- Addition by Subtraction
- Acton Lecture Series: 'Excuse Me Professor: Challenging the Myths of Progressivism'
- Pension Underfunding Has a Cause — But it is Not Smaller Workforces
- IMPACT November/December 2015
- Criminal Intent Reform: Lessons from Ohio
- Criminal Intent Reform Bill Clears Senate Committee
- Dan Crane Op-ed Published in Lansing State Journal
- Don’t Subsidize Billionaires’ Hobbies; Take Away the Copyright
- If You Can’t Expect People to Know About a Crime, Don’t Prosecute Them for It
- Fixing Detroit Schools – Five Principles
- December 4, 2015 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call Report
- Republicans Backtracking on Previous Good Tax Work
- The MEDC’s Pure Michigan Puffery: Part II
- MEDC’s Pure Michigan Puffery: Part I
- Why Can’t Tesla Sell Cars in Michigan?
- Misdiagnosing the Cause of Pension Problems
- Criminal Intent Op-ed in the Detroit News
- Union Recertification
- Forbes publishes Vernuccio op-ed on minimum wage protests
- $1 Cigarette Tax Hike Helps Smugglers, Not Health Outcomes
- ChoosingCharters.com Highlights Power of School Choice in Michigan
- Teri Leigh Olson Memorial Scholarship
- November 20, 2015 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call Report
- Make a gift of stock or appreciated securities
- Lawmakers Rushing Through Special Tax Breaks
- Capping Retirement Contributions Changes Few District Incentives
- State Pension Plans Are Unsustainable
- Wright Joins Beckmann to Discuss August Window Win
- Will Republicans Backtrack on Corporate Welfare Cuts?
- What's Stopping Tesla from Selling Cars in Michigan?
- Do Not Assume Economic Development Spending is Effective
- Court of Appeals Denies MEA’s Request to Keep ‘August Window’
- November 13, 2015 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call Report
- Ode to Shrode
- Fixing Detroit Schools – Five Principles
- Stopping Special Union Deals in Michigan
- Union Time on the Taxpayer Dime in Michigan
- Beware Claims of State Budget Cuts
- Michigan Must Seize Opportunities for Criminal Justice Reform
- November 6, 2015 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call Report
- A Lesson from the Land of Lincoln: Electricity Competition Works
- MLive quotes James Hohman on House roads funding package
- China’s One-Child Policy and the ‘Ultimate Resource’
- Keeping Government Entities on Track
- October 30, 2015 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call Report
- Legacy Society Luncheon
- Legislature Examines Overcriminalization
- Pension Predictions Fall Short
- Beware 'Wimpy' Tax Cut Promises
- Praise for REI and Also Retailers Open On Black Friday
- Video Revealing Electoral Success of Legislators Who Support Labor Reforms Released
- October 23, 2015 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call Report
- House Road Bill Could Be Better, but a Step in the Right Direction
- The Politics of Speed Limits
- The Case for Energy Competition
- Planning for Life Workshop
- Gov. Snyder Signs Forfeiture Reform Bills
- October 16, 2015 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call Report
- Beware Claims of State Budget Cuts
- Forfeiture: What Next?
- Cigarette Taxes Bad for Pennsylvania Businesses
- Union Transparency: How to Make Michigan Public Unions More Accountable
- Federal Government Mirrors Michigan Overcriminalization Efforts
- October 9, 2015 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call Report
- Finding Agreement in Criminal Justice Reform
- Senate Votes for Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform
- Unanimous Forfeiture Vote Brings Greater Transparency and Accountability
- Why Believers in Limited Government Should Support Forfeiture Reform
- We Can Have a Clean Environment and Good Paying Jobs
- Stretch Taxpayer Dollars and Promote Equality in Government: Repeal the Prevailing Wage
- School Privatization Survey: Michigan Rates Increase Again
- State Media Covers Push for Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform
- October 2, 2015 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call Report
- IMPACT September/October 2015
- ACLU, Mackinac Center Report Calls on State to End Civil Forfeiture
- Civil Forfeiture in Michigan: A Review and Recommendations for Reforms
- September 25, 2015 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call Report
- Incentives and the Electricity Industry in Michigan
- How to Improve Economic Development Transparency
- State Media Features Overcriminalization Fight
- Skorup Joins Steve Gruber for Forfeiture Discussion
- Michigan’s Freedom of Information Act
- Civil Forfeiture
- Frank Beckmann Features VoteSpotter
- September 18, 2015 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call Report
- Reitz Testifies on Overcriminalization, Mens Rea
- MERC Decision Publicized in State Media
- Vernuccio and Bowman Author Wall Street Journal Op-Ed
- Proposed Legislation Could Change 'Strict Liability' Standard
- MEA’s ‘August Window’ ruled Illegal; union must change bylaws and accept resignations
- Michigan Taxpayers Spend Over $3 Million a Year on Union Release Time
- Vernuccio Quoted In Washington Examiner
- The Detroit News Points to Mackinac Center Research
- Economic Freedom of the World Index: America’s Worrisome Decline
- Midland Daily News Features Mackinac Center Partnerships
- Courser's and Gamrat's 'Orphan Bills'
- September 11, 2015 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call
- Vernuccio Quoted on UAW Opt Out in The Detroit News
- Health Care Law’s “Employer Mandate” Puts Squeeze on Public School Budgets and Staff
- Aramark Contract: It Takes Two
- Regulations Gone Awry: The War Over Uber
- September 4, 2015 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call
- Watch Vernuccio Discuss Labor Reform at Heritage
- New Survey Says Texas Schools Behind Contracting Curve
- California Tax Bills Asking for Trouble
- You’re in the 1 Percent
- Survey: Pennsylvania is School Contracting Leader
- Schoolchildren, Teachers, Taxpayers Harmed When Pension Managers Assume Too Much
- August 28, 2015 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call
- Mackinac Center Survey Finds One-Third of Ga. School Districts Contract Out Services
- Raiding Car Crash Victim Insurance Reserves No Way to Fund Roads
- Unions Should Get Serious About Pension Underfunding
- Government Price Controllers Can’t Make Up Their Minds
- Michigan House Passes Package Repealing Outdated Laws
- Vernuccio Interviewed for Ohio Watchdog
- MEA Opt Out Address Change Featured in State and National Media
- August 21, 2015 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call Report
- Michigan’s Obamacare Medicaid Expansion
- Business Tax Hike Ballot Proposal Could Bring Back Michigan’s “Lost Decade”
- MEA Changes Opt-out Address, Keeps Members in the Dark
- Reitz Quoted on Criminal Justice Reform Efforts
- Senate Judiciary Passes Forfeiture Transparency Bills
- Results of Privatization Survey Published in State Media
- Mackinac Center Director of Research to Debate Lansing Mayor on Economic Development
- Aramark Contract: It Takes Two
- Employees Need a Choice
- School Support Service Contracting Reaches 70.8 percent
- Number of Michigan Schools Privatizing Services Grows to 70 Percent
- Actually, Michiganders are Better off Than Their Parents
- What the Olympics Can Teach Us About Subsidized Sports
- August 7, 2015 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call Report
- Rural School Districts Hit Hard by Federal Health Care Mandate
- Pension FAQs
- IMPACT July/August 2015
- More Government Spending Equals Higher Prices
- An Election for More than Just Mayor
- Film Incentives Clearly Hurt
- Fox News Features Fight Against Release Time
- Senate Heart in Right Place, Execution Worrisome
- Generations of Inspiration
- Right-to-Work Could Come to Public Employment
- Protecting Detroit School Choice is Critical
- Michigan Should Reconsider Anticompetitive Certificate of Need Laws
- Health Care Law Squeezes Public School Budgets
- Reitz Letter to the Editor Published in The Detroit News
- July 31 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call Report
- Friedman Legacy Day
- Wright Discusses Right-to-Work Decision with State Media
- Michigan Supreme Court Upholds Right-to-Work for State Employees
- Mackinac Center Policy Analyst, Congressman Walberg Discuss Civil Forfeiture
- New White House Report Highlights Occupational Licensing Problems
- Repressive Ride-sharing Regulations Beaten Back in the Big Apple
- Washington Examiner Quotes Vernuccio on Proposed Labor Reform
- The Fight Over Energy Mandates
- Excess of Laws Entangle Law-respecting People
- So Long Film Subsidies
- July 24 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call Report
- Labor Reform Not a Death Knell for Legislators After All
- Planning for Life Workshop
- The Rise and Regulation of Craft Beer
- Planning for Life Workshop
- 'Learning In Progress' on Legislative Roads Proposals
- Reason Quotes LaFaive on Sin Taxes
- Reitz Quoted on Transparency in Michigan Press
- July 17 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call Report
- A Victory for Political Free Speech
- Mackinac Center Reveals Interactive Webpage Detailing Labor Reforms and Political Outcomes
- Contracting Survey 2015: A Five State Report
- Article on Worker's Choice in Forbes
- Mia's Story Shows Private Schools Can Help When Other Schools Have Failed
- Skorup Quoted in Lansing State Journal
- State Press Covers the End of Film Subsidies
- Gov. Rick Snyder Signs Bill Ending Film Subsidies
- July 10, 2015 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call Report
- Michigan Radio Features Fight Against Forfeiture
- Progressive State Income Tax Would Damage Michigan’s Economy
- National Group Gives Michigan a ‘D’ for Forfeiture Laws
- Economic Protectionism and Consumer Safety
- Albion Superintendent Wrongly Tries to Stop Students From Leaving
- There is Plenty of Money in the Budget for Roads
- LaFaive Interview on Economic Freedom
- MLive Gets Senate Roads Plan Wrong
- Time to Give Workers a Full Choice
- Cut Corporate Welfare, Shift Money to Road Repair for Economic Growth
- Five Road Funding Principles
- Labor Reform in the States
- July 2, 2015 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call
- Remembering Sir Nicholas Winton
- Idaho Lawmakers Embrace Open Meetings, Michigan Still Waiting for Transparency
- Skorup Film Subsidy Op-Ed Published in Wall Street Journal
- How a Common Application Could Work for Detroit Parents
- Mackinac Legal Expert Quoted in Detroit News
- Michigan House Wise to Shift Corporate Welfare Spending to Roads
- United States Supreme Court to Hear Case That Could Declare Agency Fees for Public Employees Unconstitutional
- Bringing Financial Transparency to Michigan's Public Sector Unions
- Union Transparency Study Featured in Daily Caller
- June 25, 2015 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call
- Skorup Quoted on Release Time
- A Possible Uber Setback for Ride-sharing in California
- DPS Emergency Manager Could Make Big Changes
- GOP Group Calls for Eliminating Civil Forfeiture
- Money in Politics: How Much Should Be Disclosed?
- It is Fine to Get Detroit Out of the School Pension System
- The Real-World Costs of Union Release Time
- Debate on Money in Politics Featured in Media
- The Fight for Free Speech
- IMPACT May/June 2015
- June 19, 2015 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call
- A Look Back at Michigan's Battery Subsidies
- MEDC vs. Road Spending Poll Featured in Daily Caller
- Arthur N. Rupe Foundation Debate on Money in Politics: How Much Should Be Disclosed?
- Incomplete Analysis of Pension Scheme Bill Paints False Picture
- National Conservative Groups Push to End Civil Asset Forfeiture
- Coverage of Steve Cook Pension Spiking in Detroit News
- Requiring Unions to Pay for Their Own Employees Saves Taxpayer Money
- Michigan Film Incentives ‘All But Dead’
- State-Based Obamacare Exchanges Cause More Pain Than Help
- Two-thirds of Respondents Want Tax Dollars To Go To Roads Rather Than Corporate Welfare
- June 12, 2015 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call
- How Not to Regulate the Innovation Sector
- CAPPS Report Lays Out Some Solid Criminal Justice Reforms
- MERC Outlines Future Decision Outlawing ‘August Window’ and Stopping Collections
- The Problem of Corporate Welfare
- Vernuccio Joins New York Times 'Room for Debate'
- Vernuccio Talks Tenure on Fox Business
- House Road Plan Secures Road Funding
- Michigan’s Economic Recovery More Than Just the Auto Industry
- Auto Insurance Reforms a Good Start
- Film Tax Credits Don’t Grow the Economy
- LaFaive Tourism OpEd Published in the Times Herald
- Vernuccio Co-Authors Op-Ed in Washington Times
- Overcriminalization Study in The Detroit News
- Government Spending on Universities Rise, Tuition Hikes Follow
- June 5, 2015 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call
- Tying Teacher Evaluations to Student Achievement Would Be Major Reform
- Note to Michigan's Tourism Lobbyist: GEICO Pays For Its Own Advertising and You Should Too
- House Republicans Should be Applauded for Trying to Cut ‘21st Century Jobs Fund’
- Graduated Income Tax Won’t Help Income Inequality
- Skorup Joins Pat Johnston for Prevailing Wage Discussion
- Worker’s Choice Gives Unions and Employees More Freedom
- Worker's Choice Study Featured in National and State Media
- Worker's Choice: Freeing Unions and Workers from Forced Representation
- Tracking the True Cost of Tourism Spending
- MLive Quotes Mackinac Center President on Road Funding
- Home Schooling Not to Blame for Tragedy
- Right-to-Work Lawsuit Featured in Hometown Life
- Study: State Tourism Promotion Ineffective
- Five Road Funding Principles
- May 29, 2015 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call
- State Tourism Spending Ineffective
- The More Information Voters Have the Less They Support Film Subsidies
- Skorup Discusses Civil Asset Forfeiture on WPHM
- House Judiciary Passes Civil Forfeiture Reform Bills
- Mackinac Center President Serves as Panelist at Mackinac Policy Conference
- Mackinac Center Legal Foundation Appeals Right-To-Work Case Involving Novi Special Education Teacher
- What You Need to Know About the Initiative to Repeal Prevailing Wage
- Unfunded State Employee Pension Liabilities Remain at $6.2 Billion
- You Don’t Need $92,000 a Year to be 'Economically Stable'
- Assistant Fiscal Policy Director Analyses Michigan's Historic Unemployment Drop
- May 22, 2015 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call
- Frank Beckmann Show Highlights Mackinac Center/Michigan Chamber Poll
- Gov. Snyder Announces Criminal Justice Reforms
- Mackinac Center Event Featured in Media
- Michigan's Economic Recovery More Than Just the Auto Industry
- Poll Shows Overwhelming Support for Redirecting Film Subsidies to Roads
- Critics of Growth Projections in House Road Plan Should Be Unnerved by Pension Underfunding
- Civil Asset Forfeiture: How Government Seizes Private Property from Innocent Citizens
- Schools of Choice Program Causes Greater Competition
- Mackinac Center Cited on Dangers of Targeted Tax Breaks
- Mackinac Center Event Panelist on Frank Beckmann Show
- Hohman Quoted on Proposal 1 Defeat
- Prevailing Wage Repeal is Sound Policy
- Mackinac Expert Talks Film Incentives on NPR
- May 15, 2015 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call
- Pure Michigan Scare Tactics
- House Road Plan Relies on Reality
- FTC to Michigan Legislature: End Car Protectionism
- Interpreting Proposal 1’s Loss
- Michigan Incentive Policies Fooled by Job Turnover
- Mackinac Center Road Solutions Prescribed in Detroit News
- Not As Good As You Think: Why Middle-Class Parents in Michigan Should be Concerned about Their Local Public Schools
- Michigan Income Taxes Already Progressive
- May 8, 2015 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call
- Michael LaFaive and Todd Nesbit: R.I. set to lose tobacco revenue
- Mackinac Center Experts Show Cigarette Tax Increase is Counterproductive
- Prevailing Wage Research Cited in Detroit News
- Snug as an Official Bug in a Rug
- Guest Post: Kansas Excise Tax Hike Proposal a Bad Choice
- Not As Good As You Think: How Michigan’s Wealthier Schools Escape Scrutiny
- Gov. Snyder’s Much-Needed Move on Licensing
- Choice in Electricity: A Good Idea Michigan Abandoned
- Obamacare Exchange: Michigan Dodged a Bullet
- May 1, 2015 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call
- IMPACT March/April 2015
- Auto Insurance Reforms a Good Start
- Fix Disparities in Public University Funding in Michigan
- Reasons to Reason
- April 24, 2015, MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call
- Film Incentive Supporters Ignore the Facts
- Michigan’s Obamacare Medicaid Expansion Exceeds Projections by 22 Percent
- The Disparity in Michigan University Funding
- Why Michigan Should Compact for a Federal Balanced Budget Amendment
- Michigan Supreme Court: Pension Reforms were Constitutional
- Michigan Property Tax Revenues Up
- April 17, 2015, MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call
- Proposal 1: What It Is and How It Affects Taxpayers
- Open Letter to Steve Inskeep of National Public Radio
- Cigarette Tax Hikes Cause Unintended Consequences
- Detroit News Exposes MEDC Secrecy
- Facts About Road Safety in Michigan
- Charter School Parent 'Grateful' to Have a Choice
- Meet Toya Putnam, Charter School Parent
- Is Big Business a Danger to Economic Liberty?
- MCPP Experts Take Down Film Program in MLive
- Mackinac Center Work on Prop 1 Gets Wide Coverage
- April 10, 2015, MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call
- Poll Suggests Strong Turnout for May 5 Ballot Proposal
- Court of Appeals Orders Wayne County Circuit Court to Hear Claim Related to Union’s End Run of Right-to-Work
- Mackinac Expert Debates Civil Asset Forfeiture
- Amendment’s Effects on Higher Ed are Uncertain
- Detroit Coalition Plan Would Lead to More Schools Outside of Detroit
- Our Children. Our Choice.
- The Cost of the Proposal 1: The May Tax Vote
- Cigarette Smuggling Still Rampant, Problematic
- Charter Schools’ Record of Doing More With Less Validated by Stanford Report
- April 3, 2015, MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call
- Read This: FEE Interview With Larry Reed
- And the Answer is … 'Something a College Freshman Might Say'
- Coalition's Vision for Detroit: More Bureaucracy; Less Innovation
- Spalding Quoted in The Detroit News
- In Memory of Bob Crowner
- Proposal 1 Would Pay Michigan's Road Debt Hangover
- LaFaive Quoted on State Board Meeting Spending
- Hooray for Gov. Snyder on Occupational Licensure
- Mackinac Analyst on Frank Beckman Show
- March 27, 2015, MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call
- WSJ: Pension Reform 'Transition Cost' Claim More Bogus than Ever
- How Right-to-Work Can Make Unions Stronger
- House Considers Repealing Outdated Crimes
- New Study Analyzes Impact of Proposal 1 on Taxpayers
- Proposal 1 of 2015: An Analysis
- March 20, 2015, MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call
- Automatic Tax Increases are Not Good Policy
- Media Covers MEA President’s Public Pension
- Detroit Free Press Follows Up Story Broken by CapCon
- Mackinac Research Featured in Wall Street Journal
- Smuggling Rampant in Minnesota
- A Conversation About Private School Choice
with Dr. Michael Q. McShane and Bruce Braun
- Letter to the Detroit Free Press on Film Subsidies
- Mackinac Center Gets FOIA Charges Reduced from $1,550 to $50
- Detroit News Highlights Mackinac FOIA Fee Case
- March 13, 2015, MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call
- Washington Examiner Quotes Vernuccio
- House Vote on Terminating Michigan Film Producer Subsidies
- Three Reasons Why Michigan Should End Film Incentives
- Excise Tax Hike on Cigarettes Irrational Choice for Washington
- Will Michigan GOP Continue Michael Moore Film Subsidies?
- LaFaive in Los Angeles Times
- Vernuccio Cited in Forbes
- What the New Legislature Should Stand For — And What It Should Not
- Weak Membership Growth Shows Need for New Union
- A $46,000 Spread in the Cost of Tuition Per Degree at Michigan Universities
- Right-To-Work For Taylor Teachers Begins Today
- March 3, 2015, MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call
- Hohman in Wall Street Journal
- Michigan Appeals Court Denies Stay in Taylor Teacher Case
- House Committee Votes to End Michigan Film Incentives
- Wright on the Beckman Show
- High Court Should Strike Agency Fees
- Vernuccio in Washington Times
- February 27, 2015, MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call
- Hohman on Film Incentives
- LaFaive's Minnesota Senate Tax Committee Testimony
- School District Carries MEA President on its Books, Boosting His Pension
- Hohman Testimony to House Committee
- How Occupational Licensing Redistributes Income
- IMPACT January/February 2015
- Why Worker Freedom is Right for Wisconsin
- Vernuccio's Wisconsin Senate Committee Testimony Video
- The Facts on Electricity Choice
- Vernuccio Quoted on Illinois "Fair Share Dues"
- The 'Too Many School Districts' Myth
- Right to Work Isn't the Only Option
- Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association Background Data
- February 20, 2015, MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call
- The Real Problem With ‘Economic Development’ Programs
- House Republicans Announce Criminal Justice Reforms
- LaFaive in National Media
- Media Covers McHugh's Committee Testimony
- A History of Corporate Welfare Failure: Mackinac Center Testimony in the Michigan House
- Impact and How They Voted on May 5 Sales Tax Increase Ballot Measure
- Public Letter on Direct Automobile Sales
- Labor Board Says Teacher Union Committed an Unfair Labor Practice and Acted “arbitrarily, indifferent and reckless”
- February 13, 2015, MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call
- Reitz on Overcriminalization
- Vernuccio in Bloomberg Business
- Ballot Proposal Backers Weighing Strategy
- Ohio Cigarette Tax Increase Would Bring Unintended Consequences
- Overcriminalization in Michigan
- Closing School Retirement System the Right Choice
- Increased North Dakota Tobacco Taxes Could Lead to Rampant Smuggling
- The Myth of a Spreading ‘Tax Cut Fever’
- May Sales Tax Proposal Explained
- Economic Freedom in Michigan and Beyond
- House GOP Action Plan Points the Way to Real Reform
- February 6, 2015, MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call
- Bipartisan Effort to Reform Licensing Laws
- Vernuccio Op-Ed in Washington Times
- Time to Uncork Beer and Wine Reforms?
- Difference Between Bridge and Center Report Cards
- Center Study Featured in WZZM Report
- Michigan Adds, Loses Thousands of Jobs
- Eight Days, 196 Bills, 12 Constitutional Amendments
- The End of Hollywood Corporate Welfare?
- 'Free' Community College
- A Formula for Happiness with Arthur Brooks
- Michigan Celebrates National School Choice Week
- Michigan Turns 178
- National School Choice Week at the Capitol
- Spalding Discusses School Choice
- Two Cheers for Legislators on Licensing
- Labor Policy Expert Cited on Union Decline
- 88 New Bills in Four Days — a Sampler
- Wind Energy Allegations Deserve Hearings
- State Out Nearly $300M from Cigarette Smuggling
- Why Not Double the Prevailing Wage?
- Open Letter to the Liquor Control Commission
- Mackinac Center Sues Michigan Liquor Control Commission Over FOIA Fees
- Another Tobacco Store Burglary Today
- Gov. Snyder’s 2015 State of the State Address Included Six Proposed Government Expansions, One Limitation
- Feds Take Step Forward on Asset Forfeiture
- And They’re Off – Jan. 16 Legislature Report
- 'Big Oil' and Climate Change
- Center Research Cited in Washington Post
- Legislature Looks at Repealing Prevailing Wage
- 'Blown Away' Program Prolonged
- Analysis: High Cigarette Taxes Contributing to Increased Smuggling Rates in Michigan, Elsewhere
- Cigarette Smugglers Still Love New York and Michigan, but Illinois Closing In
- Government Against Itself: Public Union Power and Its Consequences
- 529 Plans in Michigan
- Michigan’s Pension Underfunding Problem
- ‘Tax Cut Fever’ – Never Burning Hot
- The Mackinac Center, Policy, and Politics
- LaFaive on WKZO in Kalamazoo
- Charter School Student Enjoying Success at Stanford
- Statewide Media Attention for Missed Votes Report
- Dear Taxpayer: Does This 'Bug' You?
- Happy New Year! It’s Time for Tax Cuts
- Center Report Card Puts School Performance in Context
- Bowl-ing for Dollars
- In or Out? How is Michigan Doing Among Other States?
- How Would You Spend an Extra $130?
- Politicians Don’t Guide the Economy, You Do
- Happy New Year!